The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1887-08-20
LETTERS FROM HOME.
Family Correspondence an ino,'su,o" ~
We'll As a Builder Of Personal charac'

ENmIly correspondence -"
We'll As a Builder Of Personal Charae
ter.
Vbe beauty and worth of letters be
wc,r those who have left home an'
those who remain are connected VIII
sentiments that no one can appreciate
wbo has not sent and received thes'
letsers. They are tie of affection, o.
rather an evidence of some tie peeulla
70 people of refinement and OF emo m,
eional strength and persistence lh'
practice is not found among people O
low instincts. for they are not capable
of getting out OF it the help and th'
.sniovment that are so profitable to PEG
ple Of kesner sensibilities. The bone
between parent and child is easily sew
cred and neglected by them, and at an
early age the child shifts for himself
before he has gathered the idea OF his
dependence on parents that children
have in more advanced stages OF living
who require many years of parental
support and counsel and encourage
ment in order that they may be fitted
80 carry on work and perform duties OF
more difficult and noble character,
Home letter writing is an indication
as well As a builder of personal char
acter. The boy leaves home to battle
his way in life perhaps, or to prepare
himself in education for doing so, and,
ii he be not Of ;gnobe blood, he writes
a weekly letter to his mother. He
confides in her his hopes, his pros
pects. his rcverses and his successes;
his letter !, q diary of things done and
thought of doing, of fears and conf
deace. of sorrow and JOY, of ventures
xaade. of steps lost and won.
A mother. only mother can reply
to such letters. Her sympathy, adj
vice, and self->acriticc, and heartfelt
concern are all truly feminine and
.r,otherly. Her tender heart responds
to her hoy'> trust and condolences,
IKE an fohan harp to the wind.
Tha son can not but be better and
stronger for the letter, to hi, mother
aud from hJ. he can not but feel that
h. has acquitted himself more capably
aud honorablv. that he has been more
loyal TO duty and recttudc more faith
fl.l to work undertaken and to men
with whom he has been brought in as
ISOLATION,
Daughters. NOWADAYS 90 away from
home 10 earn 4 living in the three
hundred and more occupations that
are open n women, and we may be
sure that they keep up a correspond
encn with those at home-with mother,
sister or brother. Girls of course,
are to be depended upon to do the
proper thing in this respect. We
know of girl who has lived away
from home for seven wears and who
has never failed to write weekly let.
ter to her mother. and, it NAV be added,
the mother has also written one in re-
.s,yn every week.
But when the daughter is married
and has the care of household and
children, and probably good deal of
work to do-what then2 There may
be those who are constant, regular and
frequent in their letter writing to those
who lived with them in the old home;
but can they be expected to do as well
as they did before marriage? Too
often, however, they not only follow
the old injunction and cleave to the
husband, which. of course, is as it
should be, but they sever themselves
almost entirely from the old home and
It's former inmates. 1t is easy to see
how this happens, taking place as i,
does. gradually, and while cares absorb
the thought and attention and while
new attachments are building up and
q new home. The result
is to be expected to = considerable ex-
t,nt, but it seems too bad that it should
Dn as extreme as II nftap ia Tho |